Comments on: Galaxy SIII With Quad-Core and LTE Coming to Korea July 9, Will We Ever See One?

By: Trevor

Trevor — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 18:03:00 +0000

Well, just with the way technology evolves, I imagine we are almost guaranteed to see a phone that will be “better” (this can be sort of a subjective term at times) than the S3. But it sounds like Samsung really has a winner with this one, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it makes a lot of people happy for a longer period of time than most phones. For me personally, I could never make it 2-3 years with the same phone, but that’s because I’ve got a bad case of the aforementioned disease.

By: patrat

patrat — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 13:32:00 +0000

Right there with ya, brother. Retiring my Droid X this afternoon!

By: Sully

Sully — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 08:31:00 +0000

Only if it was a “skinless” Nexus device.

By: michael arazan

michael arazan — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 08:09:00 +0000

I can’t wait to see in 5-6 months if there is going to be a phone that can trump the S3. The new nexus phones has some serious competition ahead of them. I don’t know if anything can unless they can get a quad core and terrific battery together in one, may be a year or longer. But the S3 is def a great 2-3 year phone, prob a 4 year phone or more.

By: Chronon7364

Chronon7364 — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 22:40:00 +0000

I’ll be just fine with my GS3 for at least a year minimum. By then, there will likely be quad-cores and such everywhere. The idea that a phone can play PSX or N64 games without a hiccup sufficiently blows my mind. Throw in a 64gb SD card, all the accessories, roms, Jelly Bean(!) etc, and I bet we’ll be good to go for quite some time.

Also, due to Verizon’s new pricing schemes, upgrading at full retail can be done anytime rather than the usual two year itch.

By: Miguel Angel Portela

Miguel Angel Portela — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 21:41:00 +0000

It is a disease. I thought I would never find satisfaction…until I got the Galaxy Note. Man. Once you go Note you never go back.

By: Trevor

Trevor — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 21:10:00 +0000

Haha yeah, the justifications can be a bit extreme too. I know I’m guilty of that.

I agree with what you said about JB. It’s what Android needed to get rid of the little hiccups and stuttering and make it a smooth-running OS (not that it was bad before by any means, but there were definitely annoyances). I’ve never used JB, so I’m basing this completely off what I’ve read and videos I’ve watched.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 20:28:00 +0000

The difference is, QC is not a patent troll. You want to play, you have to pay. Samsung has chosen not to pay for the rights to use their chipset in the past…oh well.

Apple goes out and patents things THEY DID NOT INVENT, only to bring suit against those that actually did (in some instances). Then, they only selectively enforce “their” IP rights onto their biggest competitor. You dont see RIM getting sued, or LG, or Huawei…

This is why there is so much hatred towards apple.

By: PC_Tool

PC_Tool — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 20:23:00 +0000

Being good enough doesn’t excuse it in the slightest.

By: trixnkix637

trixnkix637 — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 20:18:00 +0000

I feel ya. I’ve got a Droid-X that’s been on the front lines for far too long and is showing signs of PTSD.

By: trixnkix637

trixnkix637 — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 20:18:00 +0000

I feel ya. I’ve got a Droid-X that’s been on the front lines for far too long and is showing signs of PTSD.

By: mustbepbs

mustbepbs — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 20:13:00 +0000

It is a disease. You make all of these justifications (excuses) to get the next best thing, even though what you’ve got is more than adequate. I can understand the mentality last year, when new techs like dual core and higher resolution screens were taking off, but now, I just want to relax and enjoy what I’ve got.

The S3 is super smooth, super fast, and very powerful. Jelly Bean is a huge improvement to the OS, and it is a much needed optimization. Pretty ridiculous seeing any kind of stuttering with the hardware we have now. Once the S3 gets it, it’ll be very hard not to be satisfied.

I think the decision from OEMs this year to have less devices is less of a pro-consumer choice and more a forced choice due to hardware plateauing. Things just seem to be getting incremental upgrades. I like that.

What Android really needed was JB. Once we have more devices on JB, these hardware tweaks are going to be less noticeable in every day things like swiping, opening apps, and menu-spelunking, but more noticeable in the games department. It’ll be interesting to see where things go from here.

By: Bionic

Bionic — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 19:34:00 +0000

I dont think you would really see any improved performance between the 2 chips, there are not many apps or functions optimized for quad core or even dual core yet

By: tjhrulz

tjhrulz — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 19:25:00 +0000

it out performs it on a per core basis though, besides never believe benchmarks.

By: blood

blood — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 19:10:00 +0000

Well at least their s4 is good. It even outperforms the tegra 3 which is a quad core.